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 The name of the function that prints a line of text, `io::println`, is
 qualified: it refers to the function named `println` that's defined in the
-module `io`. In Rust, a double colon---`::`---separates parts of a
+module `io`. In Rust, a double colon separates parts of a
 qualified name. For more details, see the section on [crates](#crates).
 
 Although Rust can almost always infer the types of local variables, you